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شُعَاعُ البَصِيرَةِ يُشْهِدُكَ قُرْبَهُ مِنْكَ وَعَيْنُ البَصِيرَةِ يُشْهِدُكَ عَدَمَكَ لِوُجُودِهِ وَحَقُّ البَصِيرَةِ يُشْهِدُكَ وُجُودَهُ لَا عَدَمَكَ وَلَا وُجُودَكَ

The ray of inner sight makes you witness His nearness to you; the eye of inner sight makes you witness your nonexistence through His existence; and the reality of inner sight makes you witness His existence: neither your nonexistence nor your existence.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

شعاع البصيرة نور العقل وعين البصيرة نور العلم وحق البصيرة نور الحق فالعقلاء بنور عقولهم شهدوا أنفسهم وشاهدوا ربهم قريبا منهم أى بالعلم والاحاطة والعلماء بنور علمهم شهدوا أنفسهم عدما فى وجود ربهم والمحققون بنور الحق شاهدوا الحق ولم يشاهدوا معه سواه

The ray of inner sight is the light of the intellect (*nūr al-ʿaql*); the eye of inner sight is the light of knowledge (*nūr al-ʿilm*); and the truth of inner sight is the light of the Real (*nūr al-Ḥaqq*). Thus the people of intellect (*al-ʿuqalāʾ*), by the light of their intellects, witnessed themselves and beheld (*shāhadū*) their Lord as near to them, that is, near through knowledge and all-encompassing comprehension (*al-iḥāṭa*). The people of knowledge (*al-ʿulamāʾ*), by the light of their knowledge, witnessed themselves as nonexistence within the existence of their Lord. And those who realize the truth (*al-muḥaqqiqūn*), by the light of the Real, beheld the Real and did not behold anything other than Him alongside Him.

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 40 (printed p. 36) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 40 (printed p. 36)

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